"Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies."—American Historical Review
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Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies... That Golden raises empirical and methodological questions while at the same time significantly advancing study of this important subject is a tribute to the intellectual honesty and vitality of his book.
(American Historical Review 1990)This is not just a book of colourful description but one as well of vivid insight and lively debate—a debate, moreover, that is refreshingly free of ideological polemic and informed by a keen eye for the personal implications behind any social trend and of the individual psychology underlying the collective picture... engaging and engrossing... a considerable achievement on the author's part.
(Journal of Hellenic Studies )A very interesting book... Much of his reconstruction of the emotional life of the Athenian family rings true.
(Jasper Griffin New York Review of Books )Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies.
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Fine updated study of ancient Athenian childhood,
This review is from: Children and Childhood in Classical Athens (Ancient Society and History) (Paperback)
Mark Golden's book puts the humanity back into our picture of Athenian childhood. He replaces the rather heartless image left us by earlier scholars (based on practices like the exposure of newborns, or the farming out of offspring to nurses) with a more nuanced and gentler one emphasising the natural affection within families, while giving due weight to the more ruthlessly pragmatic practices of the age. A few more illustrations might have been handy, but this is a well-written, well-researched and thought-provoking read.
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This review is from: Children and Childhood in Classical Athens (Ancient Society and History) (Paperback)
My students have enjoyed this book over the years as an optional book in ancient history courses; it is the starting place for anyone interested in childhood or education in the period.
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